Looking for more good info on dahlias, or a club near Chicagoland to give you tips and tricks to grow dahlias? See the Central States Dahlia Society website.īugs: We’ve seen some of these on our dahlias over the years, and really don’t find dahlias any more susceptible to bugs than other garden plants. We’re talking about bugs, deer, and rabbits. So pretty just as it is!Ĭentral States Dahlia Society just put out a great list of pests that attack dahlias, and more importantly, how to get rid of said pests. It doesn’t have flowers, and it doesn’t need them. But Dusty Miller is an annual, so it won’t spread and you can’t count on it to make it through a winter. It looks a lot like my Dusty Miller, which often comes back. It is also in an area that doesn’t get stomped on – that it would not tolerate. Its outside the fence and not close to a hose, so I have to admit we don’t water it much. Silver Brocade Artemisia apparently survives neglect, not that I would recommend that, but neglect is certainly what mine got. Silver Brocade needs lots of sun, and since it was planted at the same time as the slow growing oak tree, sun is what it gets. It would be a bit taller if I didn’t trim it back hard in mid-summer, when stems begin to grow upright. Here it is under our oak tree where it is about 8 inches tall. It boasts vigorous growth – which makes it a groundcover as far as I am concerned. I hadn’t heard of it either till the day I bought it 5 years ago. Silver Brocade Artemisia might be a plant you don’t know.
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